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e-CORCE (e-Continuous Observing system Relayed by Cellular processing Environment) was a planned remote sensing satellite constellation from CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), slated for launch in 2014.
Designed by an engineer from CNES, JP Antikidis, in the frame of a prospective unit led by JJ Favier, the proposed project would revolutionize satellite Earth observation methodologies by allowing at acceptable cost a rapid coverage of the entire planet (1 day to 1 week) with Image resolution (metric) color pictures. The solutions use image compression (Psychophysics) coupled with new methods of receiving and processing information distributed across the planet. The project aims by 2014 to photograph all of the continents in color at a resolution of 1 meter, every week, with a constellation of 13 Earth-orbiting microsatellites at 600 km, imaging everything in their path and down-linking compressed data to processing centers on the world.
"e-Constellation of Observation by Recurrent Cellular Environment" combining of three technological "cells" (space, telecom, Grid) to produce a multi-spectral image of the Earth. "e" as intended to feed the new vectors of the mass-based Internet, "Constellation" because relying on a constellation of satellites observing the Earth in "saturation" REcurrent "because based on a systematic information delivery high resolution refreshed daily to weekly. "Cellular " because using the combined virtues of new technology based on cellular processing (Wide Area Grid) distributed across the full globe.
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